On Jun 13, 4:15 pm, ericdaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to Python and I need to do the following:
>
> from this: s = "978654321"
> to this : ["978", "654", "321"]
>
> Any help is appreciated
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
What you could do is iterate over the string appending the characters
1 at a time to a new string and when you hit the point you want to
place it in your output list you can append it there and clear the
temp string eg.
length = 3
tmp_string = ''
results = []
for i,character in enumerate(s):
if not (i+1) % length:
results.append(tmp_string)
else:
tmp_string += character
I don't like this approach as you create to many temp items and fairly
ugly.
What you could do is to rather use slicing to build it.
results = []
length = 3
for i in xrange(0,len(s),length):
results.append(s[i:i+length])
And then the neatest approach would be to put that into a list
comprehension instead
s = "978654321"
step = 3
output = [s[start:start+step] for start in xrange(0,len(s),step)]
Those are just some ways to do it.
Hope that helps
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